Spinsterblog

I am taking a little break from wailing about what a stupid idea it was to not have a backup plan in place when your starter is clearly worried about the destruction in his hometown from the hurricane (and you cannot convince me otherwise, because the other option is that he sucks like a tick). Instead I am going to share a little story.

I was walking into my building from my car, and two guys from the store were sitting outside. There is Store!Guy, who is a Yankees fan, but who is also supernice to me, so I forgive him for that. And then there is Deli!Guy, who I don’t know as well.

Store!Guy: You must be in seventh heaven right about now!
Deli!Guy: How come?
Store!Guy: Her Tampa Bay Rays are [sic] going to [somewhere so jinxtastic I will not even *rethinkg* it please don't listen to him, baseballgods].
Deli!Guy: You’re a TAMPA BAY RAYS FAN??!?!?!?

I cannot really convey the tone of voice, though I tried with the caps and the bold and the italics and the excessively ungrammatical punctuation. Imagine, if you will, the way that someone might say, “You TiVo REBA?!?!?!???” or perhaps, “You KILLED A PUPPY?!?!?!” THAT was his level of horror that I might actually be a Rays fan living in Virginia.

I’m not sure which is more irritating: that reaction, or the time that Danielle and I went to Camden Yards dressed in Rays gear, and an Os fan looked at us, totally confused, and said, “I didn’t know you people existed.”

Well, America, we do! And we have the really annoying cowbells to prove it!

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